Has Local Informational Advantage Disappeared?

47 Pages Posted: 30 Apr 2016 Last revised: 13 Oct 2018

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Gennaro (帅纳) Bernile

University of Miami - Department of Finance

Alok Kumar

University of Miami - Miami Herbert Business School

Johan Sulaeman

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Sustainable & Green Finance Institute (SGFIN); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI); Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (ABFER)

Qin Emma Wang

Oklahoma State University - Tulsa

Date Written: June 30, 2018

Abstract

This study examines how changes in the information environment affect the informational advantage of geographically proximate agents. We find that the long-term advantage of local agents disappeared at the turn of the millennium. This is accompanied by the reduction in local bias of institutional investors and equity analysts. However, institutional investors continue to trade local stocks disproportionately more often than nonlocal stocks; moreover, their local trades outperform nonlocal trades in the short term -- even for large and liquid stocks. Our results are consistent with improvements in the information environment shortening the horizon of geographic proximity-based informational advantage.

Keywords: Institutional investors; equity analysts; local bias; informational advantage

JEL Classification: G11, G14, G23

Suggested Citation

Bernile, Gennaro (帅纳) and Kumar, Alok and Sulaeman, Johan and Wang, Qin Emma, Has Local Informational Advantage Disappeared? (June 30, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2772127 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2772127

Gennaro (帅纳) Bernile

University of Miami - Department of Finance ( email )

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Alok Kumar

University of Miami - Miami Herbert Business School ( email )

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Johan Sulaeman (Contact Author)

National University of Singapore (NUS) - Sustainable & Green Finance Institute (SGFIN) ( email )

Singapore

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European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) ( email )

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Qin Emma Wang

Oklahoma State University - Tulsa ( email )

Department of Finance
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Stillwater, OK 74078
United States
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